Today I reracked my orange wine. And a very nice drop it is turning out to be. I added a very small amount of sugar to the racking and I am going to bulk age it for a couple of weeks then bottle it. Now I am a complete amateur when it comes to making wine but I am learning heaps along the way. The first wine I bottled was a rice and raisin wine. At the bottling stage it tasted horrible. I decided to boost the flavour a bit by adding some sugar to sweeten it a bit. After all I enjoy a glass or two of sweet wine. Uh uh. If you are going to add sugar to wine you add a little sugar to the wine, not everything that you can get your hands on. A litle bit would have worked wonders. After a few weeks the wine matured and it would have been a reasonable wine except it is so overly sweet it is nearly undrinkable. Lesson learnt.
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